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M. A. MARCUGCI.

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APPLICATION I'ILIzD MARA, 1012.

1,051,606, Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

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MARIUS A. MARCUCCI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1913.

Application filed March 4, 1912. Serial No. 681,627.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, MARIUs A. MAncUooI, asubject of the King of Italy, and a resident of the borough of Manhattanof the city of New York, State of New York, have invented an Improvementin Containers, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on thedrawings representing like parts.

The object of the present invention is to provide a holder which may bereadily attached to the outside of a door or window, and which, whilethe door or window remains closed, will be effectually locked againstactual removal as well as against being opened.

Many devices are in use in connection with which it is necessary to usea key and lock or other means extraneous to the holder itself.

The present invention, however, has to do particularly with a deviceadapted to receive a bottle of milk, or other similar article and holdthe same without danger of its being removed unless the door or windowto which the device is attached be opened.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side View with the fastening means partlyin cross section showing the device in locked position as attached atthe top of a door. Fig. 2 is a view from the rear. Fig. 3 is a frontview of the device as attached to the front of a door at one side, and,Fig. 4 is a detail plan view of the retaining jaw.

Referring now to the drawings, 2 represents a container or hollow memberhaving slots 3 and 4 adapted to engage headed projections 1 fastened toa door 6. When the door is open this hollow member 2 is slid intoposition on the headed projections 1 and when the door is closed, oneend of the hollow member is brought into contact with or such closeproximity to a fixed casing or door jamb 5 as to prevent removal of thecontainer in the direction from which it was slid into engagement. Thusthe hollow member is locked upon the door while the latter is closed andmay be removed at will or opened as desired when the door is open. A jawshaped member 7 having a shank 9 is slidably arranged in a housing 10. Apin 11 passing transversely through the shank 9 and engaging the ends ofa slot 12 in the housing limits the backward and forward movement of theshank in the housing. On

the inner end of the shank '9 is a flange 13 which, when the jaw 7 ispushed inward, bears down upon a spring member 15 and engages a shoulder14 of the said spring member, the parts here mentioned constituting alocking mechanism for the jaw 7. A second jaw 8 pivotally connected withthe jaw 7 at 16 is provided with a spur 17 which, when an object ispressed against it, causes the jaws to close and at the same timepresses them back toward the housing and into locked position. It beingobvious that the jaws may become locked inadvertently, a means isprovided to disengage the flange 13 from the shoulder 14. This meansconsists preferably of an arm 18 mounted on a rod 19 which rotates in asleeve 21 the free end of the arm being arranged to press down upon afree end 20 of the spring 15 thus disengaging the flange 13 from theshoulder 14. A flat cap 22 attached to the outer end of the rod 19serves as a lever arm by which to rotate the said rod, and also servesas a cover to protect the contents of an article such as a milk bottle23 which may be locked in the jaws of the device. The arm 18 is providedwith a yielding projection 24 which presses against the inner end of theshank 9 as the end of the arm 18 traverses the free end 2O of the springand forces the shank outwardly when the disengagement of the spring andshank is effected. Thus, in the case where the present invention isfastened to a door and adapted to receive a milk bottle or the like, thedevice is left with the jaws in open relation, the jaw 8 taking theposition shown by dotted lines in Fig. 4. If the device is tampered withand locked before a bottle is placed therein, it may be unlocked bytwisting the cap 22 and Vis then open as before. The neck of a bottlemay now be inserted between the jaws and pressed against the spur 17which action causes the jaws to lock against the neck of the bottle andthe cap 22 being close to the top of the bottle is prevented from beingtwisted thus rendering it impossible to remove the bottle until the doorupon which the device is fastened has been opened.

The form of the present invention and its operation may varyconsiderably as for example; it is immaterial whether the device befastened to the door or to the casing of the door-way or whether, inother words, to the movable part of the door or to the fixed part.

The apparatus may be used equally well when attached to a window or itscasing, the window sill here beingthe lixed member and the sash themovable member.

I claim as my invention:

l. In a bottle holder, the combination of a device to retain a bottle, alatch therefor, a housing to make the latch inaccessible, and meansmovable and accessible from the eX terior of the housing to disengagethe latch, said means being so located with reference to said devicethat the insertion of a bottle in said device keeps said means frommoving to release the latch.

2. In a bottle holder, the combination of a device to ret-ain a bottle,a latch therefor, a

housing to make the latch inaccessible from the side upon which saiddevice is located, a sleeve secured to the housing above said device,and means rotatable in said sleeve to 20 In testimony whereof, I havesigned my 25 name to this specification, in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MARIUS A. MARCUCCI.

Witnesses JOHN W@ THOMPSON, ALEXANDER S. GRoss.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of ZPatents,

Washington, D. C.

